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What time do polls close in your state?

4:53
Election 2020 timeline: 11.13.20
Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP
ByJulia Jacobo
November 03, 2020, 6:26 PM

Voter turnout on Election Day is expected to be high despite a record number of early votes and an election plagued by a pandemic.

Long lines and crowded polling stations were expected in some locations, but the campaigns have asked voters to not become discouraged and plan accordingly.

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Voters who are still in line when polls close are advised to stay in line for a chance to cast their ballot, according to election experts at the American Civil Liberties Union and Vote.org.

People line up to vote in the presidential election at P.S. 198 in New York City, Nov. 3, 2020.
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Here is what time polls close in each state (all times Eastern):

4 p.m.

  • Puerto Rico

  • 6 p.m.

  • Parts of Kentucky
  • Parts of Indiana

  • 7 p.m.

  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Parts of Indiana
  • Parts of Kentucky
  • South Carolina
  • Vermont
  • Virginia

  • 7:30 p.m.

  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
  • Virginia

  • 8 p.m.

  • Alabama
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • District of Columbia
  • Illinois
  • Kansas
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • Oklahoma
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas

  • 8:30 p.m.

    Arkansas


    9 p.m.

  • Arizona
  • Colorado
  • Louisiana
  • Minnesota
  • Nebraska
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming

  • 10 p.m.

  • Idaho
  • Iowa
  • Montana
  • Nevada
  • North Dakota
  • Utah

  • 11 p.m.

  • Parts of Alaska
  • California
  • Oregon
  • Washington state

  • 12 a.m. Nov. 4

  • Parts of Alaska
  • Hawaii
  • A volunteer with Democracy North Carolina sits to answer questions at Waddell Language Academy in Charlotte, N.C. shortly after the polls opened on election day, Nov. 3, 2020.
    Grant Baldwin/AFP via Getty Images

    ABC News' Michelle Stoddart contributed to this report.

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